Katxerê is a visual artist and filmmaker from Brazil based in Gothemburg since 2014. She graduated from MFA Fine Arts program, Valand Academy, Göteborg University, 2018, after having completed her Bachelor degree in Film Studies with specialization in script writing at
Escola de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro. Her projects investigate the effects of neoliberal biopolitics on the human body and nature. Rethinking themes such as motherhood and work, immigration, language, holistic healing and the very place of art in contemporary society today.
Vilma Määttänen is a visual artist, living and working in Gothenburg, Sweden and Karjalohja, Finland. She received her masters degree in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki 2019.
From painting, and moving images to sculpture. Her recent practice is focused on the themes of home, creative building, and their relation to bureaucracy. In her paintings, she produces most of her pigments herself using minerals and plants from both forest and suburban areas.
Hanna Högstedt is a filmmaker, writer and founding member of Onoma Productions. Högstedt works both in documentary and fiction, mainly as a screenwriter and director.
The questions of who can belong where, and how we see each other from different perspectives, keep on being central themes in Högstedt’s filmmaking. These threads continue in her upcoming feature My French Revolution, a story about a first big love between a blond Swedish girl and a French girl with Algerian roots.
Ami-Ro Sköld is a director, animator, screenwriter, producer and a founder of Onoma Productions.
Ami-Ro has become noted for their blend of stop motion animation with live action, also used in their critically acclaimed feature film Butiken. The technique of animating by hand allows Ami-Ro to connect to their characters through the body rather than just through words and rational thought.
Nathalie S. Fari is a German-Brazilian performance artist and researcher dealing with questions of documentation, mediation, and translation of site-oriented performance practice. Currently, she is in the process of concluding her PhD project Situated Agencies: Mediating places through the Body at the Artistic Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Nathalie has presented her work in collaboration with other artists and researchers across Europe and Brazil at different contexts such as art-exhibitions, performance-art and performing-arts festivals, theatre-, opera-, and film productions.